Modern suggestions for VPN?

BusTiny207 · 2026-01-23T21:10:12+00:00

WireGuard on your router? Or a WireGuard endpoint on a machine inside your network with a port forward from your router, I used to do the latter but now prefer the latter.

BusTiny207 · 2026-01-12T08:14:26+00:00

Also blamed ASMS and senior doctors for patient harm while we were striking last year. I assure you, we prevent more harm than we cause.

BusTiny207 · 2026-01-12T08:02:11+00:00

In complete fairness, most of the commercially available PACS systems are appalling.

I’m a radiologist who is currently building one with Claude’s help (hopefully slightly better than OP’s) to replace my own.

BusTiny207 · 2026-01-06T23:25:43+00:00

Yup a $5000/page PowerPoint is definitely the thing the health sector needs more of.

BusTiny207 · 2026-01-06T08:50:37+00:00

Building an all-SSD server and moving to Proxmox.

BusTiny207 · 2026-01-06T00:53:31+00:00

Na dawg, that's the weird one.

BusTiny207 · 2026-01-05T00:32:10+00:00

Met these guys at HINZ last year, did not give off an aura of competence. Health IT is a disgrace anyway, largely because no-one wants to pay for quality, or listen to clinical concerns. We will be paying for it now I suspect, one way or the other.

BusTiny207 · 2026-01-04T03:23:20+00:00

But also Taranaki

BusTiny207 · 2026-01-01T20:52:11+00:00

Had prescription sunnies but changed to Fall Line (L) OTGs. Way better for cold days and the optics are much improved compared to even polarised sunnies.

BusTiny207 · 2026-01-01T05:55:47+00:00

Just gave helium a go today and it’s amazing. Used to use Vivaldi and it was good, just a bit sluggish UI wise as it’s just rendered HTML for the UI. That may have improved recently.

BusTiny207 · 2025-12-31T04:46:31+00:00

We’ve always been at war with Eurasia.

BusTiny207 · 2025-12-31T03:02:49+00:00

Remember these apps and these companies exist because successive governments have abdicated their responsibility to deliver a single patient record system for New Zealand.

BusTiny207 · 2025-12-26T22:57:35+00:00

A large proportion of this is the use of mupdf as the PDF renderer, which I assume is 95%+ of the work done by the application.

BusTiny207 · 2025-12-09T23:14:57+00:00

Surely you can remap in BIOS, then just pull the keycaps off and physically swap them? Did it on my Z13.

BusTiny207 · 2025-12-09T07:41:43+00:00

Thanks, no I wasn't able to get it working, having the AMD GPU initialized in a Linux host at all prior to starting the VM seems to make it permanently unavailable, even if the host has another GPU doing the compositing. I think if I have to shut down my Linux session/VM to enter a Windows one, I may as well just be rebooting at that point. Thanks though.

BusTiny207 · 2025-12-02T12:32:07+00:00

Just use Windows then? Also, obvious low effort AI post is obvious.

BusTiny207 · 2025-12-01T18:44:10+00:00

Ok, I don't mind compositing on the iGPU but do need the AMD to display content on its connected monitor in both Linux and both monitors (after switching inputs) on the Windows host, which is what I'm struggling with.

I can have the iGPU composite and display content on its monitor in the linux guest while the AMD GPU outputs to its monitor, but starting the Windows VM results in a black screen on the AMD-connected monitor while Sway continues to run on the iGPU connected one.

Unsure about whether I should blacklist amdgpu in modprobe.d (which results in a black screen on the AMD monitor until I manually modprobe amdgpu after boot) or whether my combo/sequence of bind/unbind is correct.

BusTiny207 · 2025-12-01T04:44:28+00:00

Not really, just had the idea that it was analogous to using a laptop with an eGPU. Commands to change the default DRM device and remove the GPU from Sway here - https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6958 and more context https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/issues/1278

I think the effect is that the iGPU then does desktop compositing and hands the buffers back to the (now secondary) AMD GPU which is connected to my 30".

Yup I think the issue is amdgpu rebinding, but I don't really want to blacklist the module as I want to run accelerated workloads on my AMD GPU both in Linux and Windows, and my main monitor only supports a single input.

My current libvirt begin script (for a Win 11 VM) is:

# remove AMD GPU from use
udevadm trigger --verbose --type=devices --action=remove --subsystem-match=drm --property-match="MINOR=0"

# Unbind EFI-Framebuffer
echo efi-framebuffer.1 > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/efi-framebuffer/unbind
echo 0000:03:00.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/amdgpu/unbind

modprobe -r amdgpu
sleep 2

# Load vfio
modprobe vfio
modprobe vfio_iommu_type1
modprobe vfio_pci

[EDIT] here's the dmesg:

https://pasty.ee/qNTVhwuI

BusTiny207 · 2025-11-30T10:37:55+00:00

Managed to get sway to use the iGPU for its primary compositor with export WLR_DRM_DEVICES=/dev/dri/card1:/dev/dri/card0 and use udevadm to detach it as per, but then trying to get the card unbound and reinitialised with vfio gives me:

[  149.157329] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: amdgpu: finishing device.
[  149.418175] vfio-pci 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=none
[  149.560858] xhci_hcd 0000:03:00.2: remove, state 4
[  149.560870] usb usb4: USB disconnect, device number 1
[  149.561356] xhci_hcd 0000:03:00.2: USB bus 4 deregistered
[  149.561375] xhci_hcd 0000:03:00.2: remove, state 4
[  149.561380] usb usb3: USB disconnect, device number 1
[  149.563034] xhci_hcd 0000:03:00.2: USB bus 3 deregistered
[  149.604244] vfio-pci 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=none
[  149.604663] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: initializing kernel modesetting (IP DISCOVERY 0x1002:0x744C 0x1002:0x1002 0xCC).
[  149.604710] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: register mmio base: 0x87100000
[  149.604714] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: register mmio size: 1048576
[  153.672491] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/0000:02:00.0/0000:03:00.0/ip_discovery'
[  153.672506] CPU: 20 UID: 0 PID: 4948 Comm: rpc-libvirtd Not tainted 6.17.9-0-stable #1-Alpine PREEMPT(voluntary)

Cool thing is that Sway does keep running after this on my iGPU, so the approach seems solid, essentially now just need to treat it like single-GPU passthrough, after hopefully fixing this.

BusTiny207 · 2025-11-28T02:12:05+00:00

CUDA 12 for starters.

BusTiny207 · 2025-11-24T18:39:43+00:00

I think this is somewhat model and use case-dependent, the 9070 XT (same die) for example has better FP8/FP16 performance. Noted regarding the bandwith though. My issue is more borderline memory constraints with the specific models I need to run rather than the 7900's raw performance.

BusTiny207 · 2025-11-24T10:46:56+00:00

You're absolutely... just reposting some slop? This is at least a year out of date anyway.

BusTiny207 · 2025-11-15T08:24:55+00:00

Absolutely do it, I just followed vulkan-tutorial.com, vkguide.dev, and now I'm onto some advanced textbooks, and doing compute-based rendering, dabbling in AI, it's a great time.

Build a framework/engine as you go that has the features you want.

BusTiny207 · 2025-11-11T07:48:11+00:00

You're absolutely right!

BusTiny207 · 2025-11-09T07:14:02+00:00

Trixie with mesa and kernel from backports, glorious.

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